http://www.mennoniteusa.orgWebsite for the Mennonite Church USAen-USCopyright 2008 by MCUSAchrisr@mennoniteusa.org Pounding hearts, sweaty palms, dry mouths. Behind Jericho s walls, we find two spies, hidden under...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=956 As I write this, some 4.4 million citizens of Iraq have fled their homes because of the war. Two m...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 05 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=955 In John s Gospel, the miracles Jesus performs are signs of his special relationship to God, whom ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 04 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=954 In today s text, God tells Jeremiah to remind the peo ple of Judah that they have broken their agr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 03 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=953 When Paul writes to the Ephesians, he is obviously excited about the main theme of his message, Ch...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 02 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=952 If you have ever experienced acute loneliness, you know that it is a situation you never wish to e...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 01 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=951 During times of trouble, I turn to God for guidance quite naturally because I need help. However, ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 31 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=950 King David knows from experience that a good shepherd who loves his sheep has only their best inte...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 30 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=949 God s anointed king, David, experienced severe per secution from Saul, who knew that David would e...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 29 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=948 Today s key Scripture carries words of a dying saint from the world into which Jesus was born. Sim...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 28 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=947 At times, counselors encourage people to renew their image of God as a powerful yet gentle Persona...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 27 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=946 One Boxing Day my wife and I braved crowded stores with a noble purpose: to purchase nothing. We w...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 26 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=945 To me, candles at Christmas represent past and future blessings. Light up the house! 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He was always full of smiles and raised six wonderful chil...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=939 Before my father died, he reminded me many times that, because he had two daughters, the lineage o...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=938 We ve all had moments when we ve felt like the good guy. 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South Amer...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 16 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=935 One of the memorable moments from the Cosby Show years ago involves Bill confronting his son, Theo...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 15 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=934 In the cemetery where my father is buried, his marker has his name on the top line, followed by th...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 14 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=933 Our family has been besieged by cancer. Our daughter-in-law, mother of three preschool children, i...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 13 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=932 This text is so beautiful it should be read out loud two or three times. It is the heart of the Ad...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 12 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=931 My wife and I are opposites when it comes to traveling by car. She likes to take the shortest, fas...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 11 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=930 There s a big difference between promises made and promises kept. During election campaigns, polit...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 10 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=929 We have three grandchildren. As each was born, I marveled at the opportunity spread out before th...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=928 A young couple sat in my office, awash in tears. Five years before, I d performed their wedding. E...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=927 James Lark, the first African-American Mennonite bishop, was born in 1888 in Savannah, Georgia. As...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 07 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=926 There are many high points during a wedding cere mony, but one of the highest for me is when the c...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 06 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=925 Recently I taught a college class on personal violence and avenues toward healing for those who ex...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 05 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=924 Our culture does not honor the practice of waiting. We live in a time and place where immediacy is...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=923 From the time I was small, I have loved the feeling of being in church. It is not only the worship...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 03 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=922 As a nineteen-year-old, I found myself halfway around the world, working in refugee camps in Thaila...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 02 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=921 Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer died in 1977, at the age of 59. Most of her life, she was a...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 01 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=920 One year at our church, the Advent theme was Waiting at the Window. Window frames were arranged ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 30 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=919 While attending my high school reunion, I listened to a classmate describe the devastation of losi...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 29 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=918 I am taking my first pottery class. On the first night, we were each given a bag of clay. Around u...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 28 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=917 I recently applied for a job. I prepared a r sum listing my educational and work-related accompli...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 27 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=916 During a retreat at St. John s Abbey in Minnesota, I prayed the Psalms three times a day with the ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 26 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=915 As a parent, I have learned that patience does not come naturally to children. Whether it is a muc...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 25 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=914 I can recall only a handful of occasions when I was persecuted for my faith. A passerby hurled ang...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=913 A friend of mine said yes to an invitation to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate. Their relati...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 23 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=912 Our group of youth hiked 45 minutes to the top of a 500-foot ridge above our camp. The youth were ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 22 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=911 Our class went on a literal field trip to a sheep farm. The farmer took us to the barn and explain...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=910 One night during college, while studying in my dorm room, I felt unsettled and restless. I grabbed...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=909 My heart just wasn t in the conversation I was hav ing. My mind was wandering over the long to-do...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=908 So what do you do? It was the question I dreaded to hear when meeting new people. I was a youth ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=907 But why are they coming over for supper? my four-year-old son asked. I explained that the family...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=906 In this story that Jesus tells, all the slaves seem to be working independently. They each are giv...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=905 What is the day of the Lord ? Here Paul suggests that the day of the Lord is the future day when ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 15 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=904 When I was in Bible college, we loved to listen to old bluegrass gospel songs, like those sung by t...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=903 Have you ever stopped to think about what is not in this letter? Paul does not complain about the ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=902 Two weeks ago a family member was diagnosed with cancer. We have spent hours thinking and talking ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=901 In Canada, today is Remembrance Day, when we recall the horrors of war and remember the soldiers a...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 11 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=900 Form letters save time! I like to keep in touch with far-flung friends at Christmas, and in Novem...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=899 As I opened the morning paper today, I saw a pic ture that forced me to quickly turn the page. I c...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 09 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=898 The United States presidential candidates and their supporters are filling radio waves and televis...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 08 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=897 Today s passage became mainstream among American churches after Martin Luther King s assassination...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=896 Like Luke in the book of Acts, the apostle Paul writes about the Jerusalem council. As we have see...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=895 In our family we often begin our conversations with a story. Even my four-year-old granddaughter w...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=894 The Council at Jerusalem begins with the phrase There had been much debate. The leaders in atten...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=893 Today s reading reminds us how important it is for congregations to be in relationship through reg...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=892 Jesus turned the teaching of the scribes and Pharisees upside down. They were the teachers who par...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 02 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=891 As an apostle of Christ, Paul had a right to expect to be supported by the believers. But, not wan...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 01 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=890 Discouragement comes to all of us. Like the psalmist we feel besieged by trouble, and God seems to...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=889 Once I stayed for two weeks at a government school in Swaziland, southern Africa. One day as I vis...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=888 One of our world s greatest needs is for encour agers people who can look beyond a person s faults...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=887 Paul once thought that his assignment from God was to rid Judaism of heretics. I persecuted the f...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=885 Everything has a price is as true in today s story as in our own world of materialism and wealth...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=884 Today many Mennonite churches celebrate Heritage Sunday, looking to the past to remember who they ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 26 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=883 Consider these everyday dilemmas: You know the boss wants you to increase sales by 25 percent, but...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=882 Psalm 1, known as a wisdom psalm, makes strong points about the blessedness of being on God s side...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=881 Robert was a trucker assigned to pick up canned meat to be shipped from our Mennonite Central Comm...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=880 In recent years some famous personalities have taken to hiring live-in physical trainers. For thos...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=879 Some television ads tell us to use certain products as a sure way to reach out and touch someone....http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=878 Some biblical characters just get bad press! Judas is one character whom we stigmatize for his bet...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 20 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=877 What is the psalmist suggesting when he starts this hymn with a call to sing a new song? Many of u...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 19 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=876 I believe money to be the most difficult issue to dis cuss in the faith community. We can debate ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=875 Isaiah tells us that the Lord will grasp the hand of a Persian king, a king who does not know God ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 17 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=874 Paul is not in a big hurry to get to Jerusalem after his conversion experience. This is understand...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 16 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=873 Paul has a credibility problem. He has spent much of his life violently persecuting the church of...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 15 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=872 Ananias has a dilemma. He is a devout man of God whose vision has clearly spoken to him. His predi...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 14 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=867 Luke does not mince words in capturing the charac ter of Saul on his way to Damascus. He portrays ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 13 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=866 Every year as part of our church s preparation for the Lenten season, we plan a worship service us...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 12 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=865 This is the psalm that is often read at child dedica tions, when new lambs of God s care are wel...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=864 Since our daughter, Maria, was very young, she s had a tender heart for whomever or whatever she t...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=863 Every Sunday morning before the worship service begins, our church has a prayer gathering for ever...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=862 Today is the one-year anniversary of the funeral I helped lead for one of my dear friends in our ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=861 I ll have to admit it. When I see two unfamiliar men in black pants and white shirts, with Bibles ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=860 Several years ago, a family who lived in our commu nity began coming to our church. Lisa was a Chr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=859 I praise you God, for sending Jesus even though he was despised and rejected by many. I welcome you...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 05 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=858 If a garden has been destroyed and is no longer pro ductive as described in yesterday s text (Isai...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=857 Some people plant gardens for the produce they can eat and enjoy. I plant my garden to get exercis...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=856 In my role as a grief support chaplain, I talk with people who tell me that the greeting they lik...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=855 We all know people who look at life from different perspectives. One may say, Just let me be; it ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=854 I m not an antique collector, but antique shows on television always fascinate me. Someone brings ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=849 I see it, but I can hardly believe it is a comment we make when reality doesn t match our expect...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 29 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=848 Lord, please help me to be honest with myself and you. Please show me where my deeds have not match...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 28 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=847 As a stay-at-home mother of three young children, I sometimes find my days long and draining. Towa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 27 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=846 Before I had kids, I worked outside of the home. My favorite thing about the workplace was that I ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 26 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=845 My firstborn feels that as the oldest, she is entitled to be the first in everything. She should g...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 25 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=844 This past Sunday, a missionary spoke to our congre gation about his work in the Philippines. His s...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=843 At our church, parents take turns helping out in the nursery and teaching children s church. While...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 23 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=842 Sometimes I look at my girls and I think, I would not like to be a child again. They are constan...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 22 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=841 Jesus story could well have taken place in California s San Joaquin Valley, where I live. The gra...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 21 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=840 This hymn of praise is designed to cause us to pon der the wonderful, creative works of God. We ar...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=839 God commissions Jonah to deliver a message of judg ment, and the Ninevites respond by confessing t...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 19 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=838 Writer Philip Yancey casts new light on the all-too familiar Beatitudes by recasting them this way...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 18 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=837 As young adult, I served three years as a conscien tious objector, honing my verbal skills in defe...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=836 My physicians have advised me not to enter stores, restaurants, and other gathering places lest I ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 16 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=833 At Christmas, our family usually shares lists of things we might want as gifts. It makes shopping ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=832 On October 2, 2006, a gunman killed five girls, aged 7-13, injured several others, and then killed...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 14 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=831 This morning while I was getting ready for work at the secondhand store, my employer called to let...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=830 The need to be right must be part of our human DNA and as Christians we are not exempt. In today s...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=829 Today, on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I am also remembering an evening during another cr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 11 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=828 A few years ago, two couples from Wooster, Ohio, were vacationing in Sarasota, Florida. As they dr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 10 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=827 Years ago I read Judith Guest s novel Ordinary People, which also became an Academy Award-winning ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 09 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=826 Although it s been 34 years since then, our son s adoption day remains etched in my mind. How well...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=825 Sydney Lea tells the story of a Native American man, testifying in a trial, who was asked to swear...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 07 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=824 Robert Frost ends his poem The Road Not Taken with these well-known lines: I took the one less ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 06 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=823 Nothing so needs reforming, said Mark Twain, as other people s habits. When co-workers catch o...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=822 In my congregation we have a tradition that those who travel bring back a stone from a place they h...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=821 My father had a funny way of talking about success ful people in our community. He would recite th...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=820 The pilot announced that we were approaching Phoenix, but all I could see out the window was mile ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=819 My three-year-old granddaughter recently brought me one of her books and climbed into my lap to ha...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=818 Elfin was a good word to describe Hazel. She was barely over five feet tall, with a mop of silve...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=817 When I was in my first year of high school, our girls choir traveled to Washington, D.C., for a c...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 30 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=816 Robert Fulghum has famously written: All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. I coul...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=815 I used to take gardening for granted. Living in the Appalachian Mountains with its abundant rainfa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=814 Lois is one of my closest friends. Although she lives in Canada and I live in Kansas, we talk almo...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=813 My friend Mary s death was not the first I had expe rienced of someone close to me, but it was the...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 26 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=811 Although my parents grew up on farms, my siblings and I did not. Only when I moved to the Great Pl...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=810 In my spiritual journey, I have felt two strong impulses. One could be called the identifying pri...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 24 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=809 I remember learning to ride a bike. Hanging on to an old hitching rail, I put my feet on the pedal...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 23 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=808 I was exhausted from driving in the heavy rain. Suddenly a beautiful rainbow spread across the sky...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 22 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=807 I played golf for 15 years with a simple set of clubs: two drivers, three irons, and a putter. A y...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=806 A fairy tale tells about a proud frog and two kind ducks living in a pond. One day the pond dried ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=805 The world asks: How can we overcome terrorism and crime? Its answer is to put police into the sc...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=645 When my son started watching TV, I watched with him. When a commercial came on, I asked him severa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=644 In today s reading, Jesus initial reaction to the Canaanite woman s clamor for attention requires...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 17 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=643 There is something wonderful about knowing that our God is a God of all peoples and nations. It is...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=642 The backyard party had begun. Adults chatted in small groups while young children made a playful ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=641 My father and I recently traveled by dugout canoe into the Ecuadorian jungle. The indigenous Chach...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=640 In the 1970s, development organizations and the Bangladeshi government dug over ten million deep w...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=639 Our words not only shape others; they also shape us. Recently, I was in a bad mood and my temper f...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=638 When I was in the throes of junior high insecurity and concerned about cliques, pimples, and a bod...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=637 If you are reading this before going to church, be warned: lock your car! As Garrison Keillor once...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=636 Created unending food for a widow. Raised a dead boy back to life. Called down fire from heaven to...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=635 Soon after my son was born, I found myself strug­gling with question after question. Why won’t he ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=634 Matthew records the parable of the sheep and the goats as the last teaching Jesus gives before the...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=633 This question of James has burned at the heart of Christianity for centuries. Can a person have fa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=632 According to the United States Census Bureau, 12 percent of Americans live in poverty. Sadder yet ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=493 If you could describe those who attend your church in just a few words, what words would you use? ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=492 When you hear the word abundance, what’s the first image that flashes through your mind? I think o...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 03 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=491 Sometimes I find it hard to decide whether I need “down time” or just want to avoid doing somethin...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=490 If you’ve ever sat with “Jim” at one of our church potlucks, you know about the joy of food. Jim p...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=489 For the second time in this first chapter, James tells us how believers are blessed when they “end...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=488 A few years ago, I tried unsuccessfully to grow a watermelon vine. Thinking it was growing too slo...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=487 I used to envy people who could know, in advance, that God would say yes to their prayer, whether ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=486 Last summer our family took a five-day backpacking trip into the wilderness northeast of Winnipeg....http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=485 We had passed through nine time zones on our jour­ney, stretching our 24-hour day into 33 tiring h...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 27 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=484 “What are all those little pieces of fabric on your sewing table?” my granddaughters, always full o...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=483 After humbly beseeching God for wisdom, Solomon receives what he asks. I have often wished for a l...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=482 Peter, James, and John have just seen a vision that changes forever their picture of the rabbi tea...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=481 As I write, candidates for the 2008 presidential elec­tion are clamoring for air time and financia...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=480 With high anticipation, our tour group turned the corner and walked into the next gallery of paint...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=479 As I write this, a delegation of the Mennonite World Conference has just attended the Brethren in...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=475 It is five months till Christmas. Is anyone in your household looking forward to Christmas? May...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 20 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=474 Sometimes we scorn people in ancient cultures for worshipping idols made of wood and stone. As mod...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=473 Jesus has just shared a most intimate meal and per­formed a most loving act for his disciples, and...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=472 Were these words of Jesus meant to be taken literal­ly? Many Christians throughout the ages have a...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=471 This story begins with Jesus at the Last Supper with both Judas, the one who would betray him, and...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=470 In the Gospel story before us for the next four days, Jesus seems to know that his mission on ear...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=269 What a rich description of the fruitfulness of God’s word! Isaiah begins by skillfully painting an...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 13 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=268 Though the memory is now over thirty years old, it holds a vivid place in my brain. Water is at th...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=267 I left the parishioners’ home, smiling at the blessing I’d received. I had come for a pastoral vis...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=266 Imagine coming to a fork in the road of life, and you have a choice to make. One of them is the ea...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=265 Tossing and turning, I seek the slumber that would wrap me like a blanket, bringing restorative, s...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=264 Travelers to modern-day Israel can poke around first-century ruins, seeking evidence for the life ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=263 I live in a comfortable home on a tree-lined street in a Midwestern city, just a half block away ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=262 “My yoke is easy,” commentators tell us, was likely the slogan associated with Jesus’ carpentry sh...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 06 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=261 A is for apple. B is for boy. C is for cat. . . . Z is for zebra. Do you remember teaching a child...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=260 The United States is in the throes of presidential politics. Blue states, red states, elephants and...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=259 The story is told of a dramatic turn of events after a break-in at an exclusive jewelry store. Not...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=258 In The Gospel According to Peanuts, Charles Schultz shows the competing philosophies among the c...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=257 I’ve led several mission trips with college students to Mexico City. We have gone as learners, not...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=256 I am not a careful gardener. That confession, my neighbors might contend, is a great understatemen...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=253 As I write, the 2007 World Series of baseball is under way. Players on the winning team will be re...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 29 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=252 In these verses, the apostle Paul uses first-century realities of slavery to describe the power of...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=251 In Deuteronomy 6, Moses instructs the people to teach their families about God’s faithfulness. He ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=250 As part of my job at the Mennonite Information Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I lead the tour ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=249 Today’s key verse offers a stark contrast to the val­ues of our contemporary way of life. From the...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=248 Whenever Susan sees a newborn baby, she asks, “Who does he or she look like?” Then she studies th...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=247 Enemies come in various guises. Some threaten bod­ily harm; others destroy one’s peace of mind. So...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=246 In the early 1900s, Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle of Elmira, New York, became the inspiration for the wel...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 22 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=245 Every so often, I hear the expression, “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.” Wh...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 21 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=244 What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you? For the psalmist, it is a combination of be...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=243 Two boys, one cookie. In the eyes of one brother, the solution was simple—his brother could “be Je...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=242 Two small boys had their eyes on the same last cook­ie on the plate. Who would get the very last o...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=241 In 2007, a record 54,317 participants signed up for the Vancouver Sun Run, the largest 10-kilometr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=240 Books on leadership are everywhere these days. From the best-selling Launching a Leadership Revolu...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=239 Whenever an individual or family in our small con­gregation moves, many of our members show up to ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 15 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=238 In our culture, people—especially men—are encour­aged to be strong. You’ve probably heard someone ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=237 In my growing-up years, my favorite holiday was Thanksgiving. Though my older adult siblings celeb...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=236 In high school, when I was a new Christian, I was determined to live rightly. I had little teachin...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=235 On a shelf in my office at home are several photos that I’ve placed in frames. Each is of certain f...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=234 The word mediator may seem bland if we’re used to hearing it applied to Jesus. But when we experie...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=233 Short as they are, “I am” may be the two most pow­erful words in Scripture. The Gospel of John rec...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=231 Many years ago I wrote the life story of Anna Shilstra, a doctor who lived in my hometown of Stein...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=230 I have an old family photo of my grandfather stand­ing on his farmyard in Gnadenthal, Manitoba, fe...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 07 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=229 “One of my objections to religion is that it prevents the search for God,” claimed Arthur Clarke, ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=228 On trips to the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Macau, I toured two homes owned by China’s first pr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=227 I have a very old copy of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, which used to belong to my ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 04 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=226 Vo and Le Trung were our hosts when we attended an educational conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vie...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=225 I have no trouble remembering my sins, even those I committed a long time ago. I was six, for exa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=220 Today’s reading contains one of the most frightening statements in the entire Bible. If it is poss...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 01 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=219 I am not ashamed of the gospel, and I am not ashamed to live out my faith. But sometimes I do stru...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 31 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=218 The top shelf of my desk holds several reminders of significant events in my faith journey. I have...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=217 The frenetic pace of modern North American life can leave one wondering if anything remains consta...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=216 I have gone spelunking, or cave exploring, exactly once in my life. And I wouldn’t even have gone ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=215 At a funeral for a good friend of mine, a stuffed green Kermit the frog sat in a prominent place a...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=135 Last fall in southern California, skies filled with smoke and an apocalyptic orange glow as wildfi...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 26 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=134 In today’s reading, God promises many good things for the people of Israel, who have been in exile...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 25 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=133 When our family moved to a new farm, we had to borrow to make the down payment. We had clearly fel...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 24 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=132 Sometimes in my personal growth, I feel as though I am going in circles. I learn a lesson, continu...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 23 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=131 My husband’s comment after a meaningful devo­tional, Scripture, or hearty meal is often “Good stuf...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 22 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=130 How well I remember reading some obscure pas­sages in Paul’s writings when the Revised Standard Ve...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=129 The people of Israel, freshly returned from years of captivity in Babylon, are so eager to hear fr...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=128 This is a good word for Monday, the beginning of another workweek. Too often in my life, I have ta...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 19 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=127 As the young man emerged from the waters of bap­tism, he exclaimed: “Hallelujah, the work is done!...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 18 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=126 The last effort of the Roman Empire to stamp out orthodox Christianity ended in failure. Emperor J...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 17 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=125 According to one story, King George V once visited a British china factory. While viewing the deli...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 16 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=124 The story of Nehemiah amply illustrates how great work for God will attract great opposition. Nehe...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=123 Today the front page of our local paper bears the dramatic headline “Fraser River Rising Rapidly.”...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=122 It is a bad day for Nehemiah. His foes have again hurled insults at the builders of Jerusalem’s wa...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=121 “Get your golf clubs ready; your season is over!” That’s how a Vancouver Canuck player jeered at ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAMon, 12 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=120 Jesus is supposedly dead. His body has disappeared. The Romans and the Jews are blaming the discip...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASun, 11 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=119 My niece, Matia, has always known exactly what she wants and makes it very clear to everyone. Once...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USASat, 10 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=118 Every week I lead a prayer group for women. We are fortunate to have several preschool children wh...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAFri, 09 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=117 There are many times when, like the psalmist, I pray for strength. God always answers my prayer, s...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAThu, 08 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=116 Recently, a young father in our congregation was diagnosed with cancer. He has an 18-month-old son...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USAWed, 07 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=115 In the month following the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, attendance at religi...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxMennonite Church USATue, 06 May 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=114 Our congregation’s beautiful new building has become my bane. I’m probably the only one who longs ...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountWed, 30 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=101 Two and a half million dollars! After a decade of planning for a church expansion project, includi...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountTue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=100 Today’s story of Haggai story reminds me of a Keith Green song based on Psalm 127:1: “Unless the L...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountMon, 28 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=99 We all know the problem of not being able to be at two places at the same time. Jesus certainly ex...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountSun, 27 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=98 When I stood before Judge Burges in Manchester, England, I wanted to laugh because of the “mop” on...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountSat, 26 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=97 Elfrieda, my wife, was the only escort on the ill-fated ship, the Charlton Monarch, which took 758...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountFri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=96 Following World War II, I interviewed German-speaking refugees seeking to immigrate to Paraguay. O...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountThu, 24 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=95 When young children are fighting, a parent might put each one into a corner of the room until they...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxSuperUser AccountWed, 23 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=94 The eyes of [Adam and Eve] were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig le...http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspxAdministrator AccountFri, 08 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Rejoice/tabid/118/Default.aspx?ItemId=12